Chapter 422: Driving Straight Into the Enemy

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Chang Wei looked back at the bastion behind him, smiled, and led his troops northward.

Through the Qingfengkou mountain road, he will go to the grassland to attack the Black Iron King's tent, accompanied by Lu Chang, Qin Shan, and Wei Qun.

They have 2,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry, plus Zhongli and Chen Hu's 8,000 cavalry who are going to the grassland, which is a total of 40,000 troops guarding the bastion.

However, the King of Yan allocated 5,000 chariots to them, which is another 5,000 troops, bringing the total number of troops dispatched this time to 45,000.

In the Battle of Autumn Hunting, the Black Iron King's tent lost nearly 30,000 Beidi cavalry.

These cavalry are not servants who act as meat shields, but real Beidi soldiers.

In the Battle of Yanguan, the Black Iron King's tent lost a total of 70,000 people, of which only 40,000 servants, and the rest were real Beidi soldiers.

After suffering huge losses twice, the Black Iron King's tent is no longer the same as before.

Although the number of soldiers was made up by recruiting servants, in Chang Wei's opinion, the Black Iron King's tent was just bloated.

Even if the young and strong Northern Di people under the king's tent were recruited, the real Northern Di cavalry would not exceed 50,000.

In the Battle of Qingfengkou, the servants of the Black Iron King were almost wiped out.

This time when they enter the grassland, their real opponent will be the less than 50,000 Northern Di cavalry.

And the army he led was equipped with flintlock rifles, mortars, and chariots, and the number was almost the same as that of the Black Iron King's tent. If he could not produce a good record, he would have no face to return to the Northern Four Counties.

After more than a day of marching.

Chang Wei arrived at the grassland in the evening of the second day.

At this time, he immediately ordered the chariots to march on the outside and the infantry to march on the inside.

The grassland in front of him was endless and flat, which was simply the most favorable terrain for cavalry.

If they were suddenly attacked by cavalry and could not organize the formation in time, the fate of these infantry would be extremely miserable.

The chariots marching on both sides is equivalent to the army having mobile chevaux de frise, which can block the cavalry outside the chariots and give the soldiers inside time to form a battle array.

When the army entered the grassland from Yanshan Road, it was completely dark.

Chang Wei ordered the chariots to form a circular formation, and the soldiers set up camp in the circular formation to rest and cook.

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Black Iron King's Tent.

Chang Wei led the army just after setting off from Qingfengkou, and the Beidi scouts kept a close eye on it. After the Yan Wang army arrived at the grassland, Enke also got the news as soon as possible.

"The Yan Wang is so arrogant that he dared to let his troops drive straight from Yanshan to attack my Black Iron King's Tent. He seems to have forgotten that cavalry is invincible on the grassland." Enke sat in the king's tent and listened to the scouts reporting that the Yan Wang army had set up camp 200 miles away from the king's tent. He picked up the wine glass made of skulls and drank the wine in the cup.

This wine glass belonged to his father. When he captured Ningjindusi, in order to avenge the death of Langlu, his father personally killed the garrison commander of Jincheng and made his skull into a wine glass.

"Chang Wei!" Thinking of this, he stared at the skull wine glass in his hand. This honor was his father's after all.

This time he wanted to make a skull wine glass himself. For him, the head of the first general under the King of Yan was very suitable for his wine glass.

Just thinking of the King of Yan's cavalry that had been rampant in the grassland for the past two days and had not been eliminated, he felt irritated again.

What annoyed him was that he really couldn't understand how these King of Yan's cavalry avoided being hunted down.

"Give the order to the Langlu, leave 5,000 cavalry to encircle and suppress the group of rats, and everyone else will come back. It's time for revenge." Enke shouted.

The fortress at Qingfengkou is the advantage of the King of Yan.

And the flat grassland is the advantage of their Beidi. Here, they can't lose.

For him, the Dasong infantry could be crushed into dust by 20,000 Beidi cavalry, but for safety, he would mobilize 45,000 cavalry this time.

As long as the Yan Wang troops that broke into the grassland were eliminated, his failure at Qingfengkou would no longer matter.

Taking advantage of the victory, he could even lead the cavalry into Yan County.

"Yan Wang, Yan Wang, you are overwhelmed by victory, right? Hahaha, but it's just right, I will definitely complete the task assigned to me by the Khan this time." Thinking of this, Enke laughed.

Amid his laughter, the scouts set out at night and passed on Enke's order.

The next morning, a cavalry of 5,000 people arrived at the king's tent, and at night, the cavalry gathered in the king's tent reached more than 30,000 people.

On the third day, Gordan and Midai arrived with 5,000 cavalry each.

At this time, they finally discovered the Yan Wang cavalry that was rampant on the grassland.

These Yan Wang cavalry joined the Yan Wang army that entered the grassland without anyone noticing.

When the news came, the wolf records of the Black Iron King's tent suddenly became red-eyed like hungry wolves that choose their prey.

This cavalry of the King of Yan that was rampant on the grassland killed the people of their tribe and stole their horses and cattle and sheep. Their hatred for this cavalry was deeper than the sea.

Now, they just want to catch this cavalry and cut every one of their soldiers into pieces.

"My king, give the order, we will tear them into pieces." Midai raised his fist and shook it in front of Enke.

"My king, we want revenge." Two more wolf records shouted.

"..."

The other generals were also very angry. The demon they were looking for appeared in the King of Yan's army coming from the south. They would not miss this opportunity to destroy them even if they died.

Enke nodded, "The people of Dasong have a saying that the army of mourning will win. The King of Yan owes us too much blood debt to the Black Iron King's tent. This time we want to get it back."

"Get it back! Get it back!..." the generals shouted.

Enke looked around and asked, "How far are they from the king's tent?"

"Less than thirty miles, they are setting up camp now." The scout replied.

Seeing that it was a little dark outside the tent, Enke said to the wolf records, "Have a good rest for the night, and launch an attack tomorrow. After winning, we will eat their flesh alive."

Hearing this, the wolf records left the king's tent one by one, and the cruelty in their eyes almost overflowed.

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"Hahaha..."

Thirty miles from the Black Iron King's Tent.

There are twenty circular formations surrounded by chariots here.

Each circular formation is surrounded by 250 chariots. Since each chariot is nearly five meters long, it forms a circle with a radius of nearly 200 meters.

The soldiers' tents are set up in the circular formation.

At this moment, the circular formation formed another big circle, and in a circular formation in the center, Chang Wei's loud laughter came out.

In front of Chang Wei were Zhongli and Chen Hu.

"General, you asked us to join up, just to force the Black Iron Tent to attack us?" Zhongli and Chen Hu looked at each other. They had been leading the Northern Di cavalry in circles these days.

Suddenly, Chang Wei ordered them to join the army.

"Of course, the Black Iron Tent hates you the most now. How can the Black Iron Tent be willing if they don't catch you?" Chang Wei said.

What he was most worried about was that the Black Iron Tent would not come to fight them, although he knew that the Northern Di people were always conceited and would most likely choose to fight a decisive battle with them.

But calling Zhongli and Chen Hu back would increase this probability.

"Hehe, that's right." Chen Hu said, "In that case, let's really compete. If we win, we will take the opportunity to plunder the entire Black Iron Tent."

Zhongli nodded and shook the silver spear in his hand, "This time, His Royal Highness the King of Yan allowed us to go deep into the grassland, so we have to fight a good battle."

Lu Chang, Qin Shan, and Wei Qun laughed in agreement.

This time, they will really have a battle with the Northern Di in the wilderness. They want to see whether the Northern Di cavalry is stronger or their new tactics are more powerful.